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A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.

To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

To garrison to excess.

A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S.…

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

The sulter's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.

surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.

the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort. [R.] Washington.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] Shak.

nant. [R.] Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns c…

oldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell.

A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.

To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison. They were provisioned for a journey. Palfrey.

A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.